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Comment on Foswiki 1.1.4 heads-up on manual changes to .txt files by WilliamMorgan

WilliamMorgan — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 03:05:58 +0000

Thanks for the update. works great on my system.

I saw an old post referring to the idea of creating a database for foswiki – one which would retain the simplicity of text files while utilising indexing capabilities. Is this idea progressing?

Comment on Foswiki Association board election. by KennethLavrsen

KennethLavrsen — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:01:26 +0000

You are going to be a fine chairman Sven. Thanks for taking the dirty jobs

Comment on Foswiki 1.1.4 heads-up on manual changes to .txt files by @babar21

@babar21 — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 13:00:00 +0000

If you want to simply use the .txt date as a base for the .txt,v, you can use the -r option of touch, if your system supports it. So for a single files, that is:

touch -r $file ${file},v where $file is the path to YourTopic.txt

To do all at once, easiest is to use perl:

perl -MFile::Find=find -wle'find(sub{/^(.*.txt),vz/&&-f&&system("echo touch -f $1 $_")},@ARGV)' /path/to/foswiki/data

Comment on Foswiki 1.1.4 heads-up on manual changes to .txt files by @csirac2

@csirac2 — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 10:57:34 +0000

For those interested, we're tracking the performance concern at http://foswiki.org/Tasks/Item11454

Comment on Foswiki Association board election. by @andrewrjones

@andrewrjones — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 02:21:20 +0000

Once we have a newsletter (or any communication), we should ask Perl Weekly if they would like to feature it (http://perlweekly.com). Over 2000 subscribers.

Comment on Foswiki is getting SQL RDBMS support by @csirac2

@csirac2 — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 12:44:20 +0000

Yes, an SQL implementation would enable efficient implementation of the "time travel" feature, but there is no complete specification for how this would work. http://foswiki.org/Development/AddWikiSnapshots has some talk about this, and http://foswiki.org/Development/LoadDifferentTopic... has some more nitty gritty detail about adding web-topic-version tuples as first-class address syntax to be supported throughout the wiki. Ideas and comments are very welcome

For what it's worth, MongoDBPlugin is storing every version of every topic (but not yet queryable via the QuerySearch versions query syntax yet)

Comment on Foswiki is getting SQL RDBMS support by Lurker

Lurker — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 23:12:24 +0000

Would this be a way to do some "time traveling" in a Foswiki? One of the reasons that I thought a version control tool would be used underneath a wiki would be to enable viewing an *entire* wiki at particular points in time. For instance, for a wiki used as release documentation for a major product, there may be times where you want to see what the documentation said at a particular past release point. Is the idea of using SQL as part of the query language to enable this idea of "time travel"?

Comment on When community really matters – security report turned into release 1.1.2 in only 14 hours by ericnguyen

ericnguyen — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 07:11:31 +0000

Great job, folks!
Congratulations!

Comment on When community really matters – security report turned into release 1.1.2 in only 14 hours by mseibert

mseibert — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 11:30:15 +0000

Congratulations also from me. Awesome community work, that you can be proud of.

Comment on When community really matters – security report turned into release 1.1.2 in only 14 hours by RickMach

RickMach — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 21:25:29 +0000

Great job and thanks for your continued hard work in the area! I appreciated the insight to what happened behind the scenes.